Dustin Hoffman

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q42930: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: The Graduate (1967); Midnight Cowboy (1969); Lenny (1974); Straight Time (1978); Kramer vs. Kramer (1979); Tootsie (1982); Rain Man (1988); Billy Bathgate (1991); Hook (1991); Wag the Dog (1997); Runaway Jury (2003).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Christopher Robin (2018): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Hook (1991), which they acted in: Hook ⇒ Christopher Robin (the host's read). Hook foreshadowed reboot culture; Christopher Robin is basically Hook again.
“Like, we're actually literally getting a version of Hook this year with Christopher Robin, the new Winnie the Pooh movie”
The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:31:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Star 80 (1983): 1 line

craft (structure) · through Lenny (1974), which they acted in: Lenny ⇒ Star 80 (the host's read). Star 80's interview framing/superstructure echoes Lenny's, and Lenny is the origin of the Chevy-Chase-style voice.
“This movie, you have the interview, this sort of superstructure that he loves so much”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:32:03 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (17) everyone in acting

actor, Rain Man (Blank Check with Griffin & David, The Color of Money with Chris Ryan)
actor, The Graduate (Blank Check with Griffin & David, The Color of Money with Chris Ryan)
actor, Midnight Cowboy (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Raging Bull with David Krumholtz)
actor, The Graduate (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Raging Bull with David Krumholtz)
Oscar winner, good with the kid, Kramer vs. Kramer (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis)
actor, Lenny (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Star 80 with Julie Klausner)
actor (Oscar nominee), Wag the Dog (Blank Check with Griffin & David, As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard)
actor, Hook (Blank Check with Griffin & David, The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
actor (won Best Actor), Rain Man (The Rewatchables, ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson)
actor, The Graduate (The Rewatchables, ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson)
notoriously difficult actor, Tootsie (The Rewatchables, ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan)
lead, Straight Time (The Rewatchables, ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
actor, Billy Bathgate (The Big Picture, The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’)
actor, Rain Man (The Big Picture, The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame)
actor (Captain Hook), Hook (The Big Picture, Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57))
star, Tootsie (Blank Check — Patreon, Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free))
actor, Runaway Jury (Blank Check — Patreon, In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free))

Other (3) everyone in other

wanted to make, La Brava (unmade adaptation) (Blank Check with Griffin & David, The Color of Money with Chris Ryan)
turned down the role, The Edge (The Rewatchables, ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan)
subject, Megalopolis documentary (The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’)

What was said about them, by kind

industry (1)

industry (good-with-kids oscar): Dustin Hoffman → Kramer vs. Kramer. Hoffman's Oscar partly rests on being believably good with a child; Travolta gets the same benefit.
“I genuinely think it is a huge part of Dustin Hoffman fucking winning the Kramer versus Kramer, Oscar.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:57:50 · Hillary Busis (0.50 sure it was them)

people (2)

people (people): Gene Hackman → Dustin Hoffman. Hackman's brief contemporaneous interview is compared to Hoffman in the Megalopolis documentary: smiling and turning it on.
“Shades of Dustin Hoffman in the Megalopolis documentary.”
The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:12:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Gene Hackman → Dustin Hoffman. Runaway Jury pairs Hackman and Hoffman, who had never been in a movie together.
“Hackman and fucking Hoffman together.”
Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:48:49 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

what-if (casting what-if): Dustin Hoffman → Anthony Hopkins. Hoffman turned down the role Hopkins took.
“So Dustin Hoffman turns down the roll.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan · 1:11:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.